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Um estudo histórico da educação sexual do Brasil colonial a partir das representações do corpo feminino encontradas em crônicas e xilogravuras do século XVI

2014; Linguagem: Inglês

2639-6459

Anne Caroline Mariank Alves Scalia,

Race, Identity, and Education in Brazil

This educational research is part of a larger integrated project that aims to retrieve, organize and systematize data that support the study of historiography of Sexual Education in Brazil. In this study, we intend to analyze the representations of the female body in works of the sixteenth century of colonial Brazil as well as woodcuts made and/or organized in the same works, because we believe that this analysis and this “descontructions” of these representations serve as parameter and subsidy for understating the evolution about the conceptions of sexuality and institutionalization of sexual knowledge in Brazil. This research, of historical and documentary character, refers to primary sources, consisting of four works of the sinteenth century: “Americae Tartia Pars”, by Theodore de Bry, “Viagem a Terra Brasil”, by Jean Lery, “Duas viagens ao Brasil”, by Hans Staden and “As singularidades da Franca Antartica”, by Andre Thevet. The methodological instructions are based in their localization, selection and analyses of data and information present in the textual material and in the woodcuts. This way, the technique used in this research was the Discourse Analysis, by Michel Foucault, based on Deconstruction, by Jacques Derrida, who guided us to characterize the way in which chronicles can be read and explained in its contradictions and irreducibility, allowing us to map the imagery present in the body beyond the sixteenth century.